Zuckerberg’s deployment of algorithms to please the F.B.I. is a glaring example of how billionaires and government work together to control information in an oligarchy.
Caitlin Johnstone: FBI’s Muting of Hunter Biden Story
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John Bolton Touts Experience as Coups D’État Planner
Social media was abuzz after the longtime Republican official’s exchange Tuesday with CNN host Jake Tapper.
Caitlin Johnstone: Silicon Valley Taking Control of History
The idea that government-tied corporations should act as arbiters of history and accuracy is steadily gaining acceptance in the echo chamber of mainstream public opinion.
Caitlin Johnstone: They Fear Information, Not Disinformation
All the safeguards being setting up now to manipulate information online are not there to eliminate lies, they’re there to eliminate truth.
A Reader Sounds Off on PayPal’s Ban on CN
As with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, journalism that tells some truths that might undermine the case for war can’t be tolerated, writes Jim Kavanagh.
Caitlin Johnstone: The Billionaire Savior of Twitter
Elon Musk’s talk about free speech will only matter if and when Twitter stops censoring Russian media and people who question the official narrative about Ukraine.
PEPE ESCOBAR – Big Tech’s ‘Cancel Culture’ Love Affair
Cancel culture is inbuilt in the techno-feudalist project: conform to the hegemonic narrative, or else. Journalism that does not conform must be taken down.
Chris Hedges: American Commissars
Social media platforms are aggressively censoring challenges to the dominant narrative on Ukraine, the ruling Democratic Party, the wars in the Middle East and the corporate state.
SCOTT RITTER: Twitter Wars—My Personal Experience in Twitter’s Ongoing Assault on Free Speech
At some point, the U.S. people, and those they elect to higher office need to bring Twitter in line with the ideals and values Americans collectively espouse when it comes to free speech and online identity protection.
Caitlin Johnstone: Twitter IS ‘State-Affiliated Media’
Twitter has been working in steadily increasing intimacy with the U.S. government since it began pressuring Silicon Valley platforms to regulate content in support of the establishment following the 2016 election.